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Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:16:21 GMTDave's solo career started with 3 platinum releases before crashing on the rocks with ALAE. Now he never intended to have a sustained solo career but chasing a movie deal and underestimating Edward resulted in it. ALAE was a new band essentially but had a new brilliant guitarist and Bob Rock onboard to make it polished so surely what could go wrong?

First losing Jason Becker to ALS. Then bad choices, MTV which had been instrumental for Dave going back to 1984 banned his first single the title track. Chicks in bikinis and midgets were now a no no. The second single was Sensible shoes, no midgets and a more arty black n white video. MTV felt topic matter was too mature, only would air it after 10PM. Oh shit, well make it up on tour. Between the delay from replacing Jason and fighting with MTV the tour started a bit later than usual. Well while auditioning and fighting Kurt Cobain happened as buzz was all about the new hot Seattle band as that scene exploded in 91. Dave's usual show now seemed a total contrast to the current scene and no one really heard either of the first 2 singles.
So that was the anatomy of how to halt a 3 platinum run dead in its tracks.

The Vegas choice a few years later had logic of not fighting the current environment do something different. This however cemented perception of done. What if he had chosen a theatre tour doing the acoustic storytellers format instead? What if he had made a less controversial video (although I see nothing wrong with either). So choices have consequence.
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